So what I'm gathering here is, you're "all right" for a very personal and subjective value of all right, and the fact that it's probably not anything close to what I would consider all right is something I'm supposed to politely ignore?
The thing is, Dimitri, you didn't have to tell me you were doing all right at all. You could tell me - well, what you just did. That you're still processing it all. Maybe how you actually feel. That you don't even know what to feel yet. You could tell me anything at all, really. But when I ask how you're doing, I don't just want to be fed a couple words that you know don't mean what I'd want them to mean. I want to actually get a feel for where you're at.
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The thing is, Dimitri, you didn't have to tell me you were doing all right at all. You could tell me - well, what you just did. That you're still processing it all. Maybe how you actually feel. That you don't even know what to feel yet. You could tell me anything at all, really. But when I ask how you're doing, I don't just want to be fed a couple words that you know don't mean what I'd want them to mean. I want to actually get a feel for where you're at.